Applying NLP Now
STRAGEDY: When Your Strategy Turns Into A Tragedy
by Jan Prince, NLP Author, Practitioner and Trainer
All of us operate out of unconscious patterns that “get us what we have always gotten.” When these patterns repeatedly harm our relationships or our careers we are unwittingly creating our own tragedies. If we can examine and experience these ineffective patterns in a detached way we have the opportunity to change them dramatically.
In preparing this address, naturally the first thing I did was look again at the conference title: "Modeling Excellence in an Increasingly Complex World." And I thought back to when I was a kid, and recalled that it seemed pretty darned complex then, too. We were diving under chairs to protect ourselves from atomic bombs, and crowds of white adults were screaming at a little black girl trying to go to school, and we were fighting the communists everywhere, and flying people to the moon. All in all, seemed pretty busy to me then, too.More on On Modeling Excellence in a Complex World
Lately I have noticed with increasing frequency and delight the number of instances of discoveries and principles and understandings first generated in the field of NLP that are now becoming known and verified by mainstream Western science.

Practical Uses of Eye Movement Integration
by Jan Prince, NLP Practitioner & Trainer
When I took the NLP practitioner training twenty some years ago I remember utilizing the different eye movements to detect which representation system a person was using at any time and to elicit the use of a particular rep system by having the person look in the direction aligned with that rep system. Eye Movement Integration makes another More on Practical Uses of Eye Movement Integration
Perhaps one of the most well known NLP processes is the phobia-trauma process. Usually associated with relieving psychological trauma, NLP has many applications in the physical arena as well.
Continuing our series on NLP in everyday life, this week's story by Steve Andreas, co-founder of NLP Comprehensive, describes using NLP to reduce the affects of physical trauma.
A lot of people want to know 'What's really new in NLP?'
While language patterns have long been one of the most popular areas of NLP, no really new linguistic models have been offered in a long time. In fact, in most cases not much has changed in language patterns or the way they're taught in NLP since the 80's. This week's article by Charles Faulkner, our Director of Programs, addresses that lack with a preview of one of the elements of a new language model – and a simple way to practice using it yourself!More on The Language of Our Bodies
Maps, Models, and Perceptual Filters:
The primary presupposition underlying all of NLP is that The Map is not the Territory. You experience life through a set of perceptual filters that are unique to you. Your experience is filtered first


